Obs. [a. Sp. ante, also dante, ad. Arab. lamt, some animal of the antelope or buffalo kind, ‘el Dante, que los Affricanos llaman Lamt’ (Marmol, in Dozy). Its skin is called in Arab. ad-daraca lamt, corrupt. in Sp. adaraga dante, adarga de ante, whence dante, ante, for the animal.]
[1598. Florio, Ante … a wilde beast in India as big as an asse with round eares, with the neather lip like a trumpet, neuer going but by night.]
1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, II. 1029. Buffles, Badgers, Ante, Deere.
